394 cincLE OF the hours. 



usual liour, it being the remains of the bell formerly rang for the 

 office of Prime. 



In the early -spring it is still dark, nor is it till after the clock has 

 struck five that we see the orient lighter than tiie rest of the horizon. 



The progress of the late spring and its encreasing light brings us 

 at length to the period when at five o'clock the sun is risen. . In 

 summer it is broad daylight, and even warm. As summer declines, 

 it is cooler and liardly light at this hour; and autumn at length 

 bnngs us to the time when the fifth hour is struck again in the gloom 

 of nicht. 



In summer many syngenecious and other periodical flowers open 



at this time when there is light enough. For instance : 



Forster's Sowthistle. Sonchns Coerulcus $ opens. 

 Succory Cicherium lutuhus opens. 

 Oxetonsue Pirris fc/iioides opens. 

 Copper Lily Hemeriicaltis fulvn opens. 

 Paleyelloir Poppy Papaver nudicalc opens. 



The above are only a few examples out of many hundreds. The 

 Goatsbeards and many others do the same. But it must be ob- 

 served, that the rule for flowers opening at certain hours is this — 

 They have a certain haur for opening when there is sufficient light, 

 but their hour fluctuates with the declining sun ; so that those plants 

 which at Midsummer open at five, if they should last till Bartholo- 

 mewtide, would then open about six, and so on. 



As the principal season for the singing of birds is the late spring, 



so this hour becomes the most general time for their beginning. 



Nothing can well be more delightful than a fine May morning at 



this hour. 



Hymnus, ad ly. HoTr,m manes. 



Splendor Paternae gloriae, 

 l)e luce lucem pioferens. 

 Lux lucis, & fons luminis. 

 Diem dies illumiiums: 

 Verusque sol illabere, 

 Micans nitore perpeti : 

 Jubarquc saacti Spiritus 

 Infunde nostris sensibus. 

 Votis vocemus & Pattern, 

 Patrem potentis !?ratiae, 

 Patrem pereunis gloiiae, 

 Culpam releget lubricam. 

 Conflrniet actus streiiuos, 

 Denies retundat invidi. 

 Casus secundet aspeios. 

 Agenda rect^ dirigat. 

 Menteni f!;uberiiet, ic regat. 

 Sit pura nobis ciistitas : 

 Fides calore ferveat, 

 Fraudis venena nesciat. 

 Cliristusque nobis sit cibus, 

 Totusque noster sit sides : 

 Laeti bibanuI^ sobriani 

 Profusionem Spiritus. 

 Laetuf dies hie transeat ; 

 Pudor sit ut diluculum, 

 Fides velut nieridits; 

 Crepusciiluin mens nesciat. 



